> On May 5, 2003 09:58 am, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > It's probably easier to tell your sister to highlight the > link, copy it > > to the clipboard, open up a browser, and paste the link in. > This will > > work no matter what browser or e-mail package she ever users on any > > platform. > >> and Elton Woo Wrote: >> .... it's probably easier for me to *walk* to Toronto from Montreal, >> and hold her hand, and show her what and how to do it. She and >> my brother-in-law are in their eighties. Perhaps you can understand >> how Windows, and *computers in general* tend to terrify older folk. >> >> <snip> >> >> Asking (actually "demainding") any more of them, would be >> subjecting them to absoulte misery and terror... NO JOKE. >> >> Elton <*SIGH*>. Actually, you might be underestimating them. My mother, at age 86 and with a significant visual impairment decided to learn how to use a computer. Now, I don't expect her to become a guru, but she has picked up quite a bit in a short time. And, I'm coaching from two thousand miles away. Once I convinced her she can't "break" it from the keyboard, progress was rapid. I think that age is less important than attitude. Good Luck, Bill Beeman
